FUNNY TV. I enjoyed this a lot.
Damn.
I subscribed to Disney+ STAR Canada.
Another CAD $12 / month on my pandemic long list of monthly recurring bills.
As HULU is not available in Canada, to watch Only Murders in the Building I was forced to sign-up for Disney.
I’ll unsubscribe from Netflix for a while.
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Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published …, Stuart Neville has … achieved international recognition as one of crime fiction’s great living writers.
… Neville offers readers a collection of his short fiction—twelve chilling stories that traverse and blend the genres of noir, horror, and speculative fiction, and which bring the history and lore of Neville’s native Northern Ireland to glittering life. …
Goodreads
Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O’Connor, and Donald Sutherland.
The first ADULT feature film I’d ever seen was a classic. My Mom took me though I was underage at the time.
I loved it.
Kelly’s Heroes – a group of World War II American soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines.
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Quite good. The first in a series of 28 Eve Duncan novels, so far.
After losing her beloved child to a serial killer, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan survives by focusing on her career.
The best in her field at rebuilding faces from bare skull bones, Eve specializes in identifying missing children.
When billionaire John Logan requests her help in identifying an adult skull, Eve–already swamped with work–tells Logan that she isn’t interested. But when he volunteers to donate a large sum of money to a charity for missing children in exchange for her time, Eve reluctantly agrees.
Logan neglects to tell her that there are powerful, desperate people who are determined to keep the skull’s true identity a secret at any cost.
irisjohansen.com
I happily joined in the Adlard family and friends vacation to Newport, Oregon following our climb of Mt Adams, Washington.
Newport only has a population of 11,000 yet is a big tourist destination. Great beaches.
Here’s the vista from their rented beach house deck.
We enjoyed cycling the HUGE beach. (VIDEO)
It’s WINDY so Kites and Kite Surfing are popular.
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That’s close to Devils Punchbowl State Natural Area. A fun stop.
Oregon Coast Aquarium is well worth a visit too.
We had 3 terrific dinners at seafood restaurants on Newport’s Historic Bayfront. Research for Chef Dave Adlard.
Local Ocean was great. Clearwater Restaurant, as well.
Tom enjoyed our stop at the Rogue Nation Brewery & Spirits factory. We did well, as well, at a boutique wine tasting shop.
Dave cycles every day. So our group cycled every day.
The iconic image of Newport is the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Art Deco and Art Moderne design motifs as well as forms borrowed from Gothic architecture.
When you have destinations like Newport, who needs Hawaii? 😀
Perhaps the BEST Koontz book I’ve read so far.
And the most like Stephen King. It’s long. Sprawling. Surprising.
Supernatural horror.
MANY original and interesting characters.
One of the leads makes a pilgrimage to thank Dr. Jonas Salk for inventing the Polio vaccine.
Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen.
On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life.
And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him.
At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person’s life has an effect on every other person’s, in often unknowable ways.
At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.
deankoontz.com
Sister and brother Sage and Cole hosted me in Olympia WA while I organized my Covid test within the 72 hour limit required for my international flight home to Canada.
THANKS.
Did you own a huge house, big lot and a 3-car garage when YOU were Cole’s age?
They schooled me on Anime. Demon Slayer.
One night we watched the first few episodes of Only Murders in the Building.
We went out to lunch, one day, for a HUGE meat pie.
I travelled Portland to Olympia via Flixbus, an excellent service. They carry bicycles under the bus. Recommended.
Whispering Room is the 2nd book in his Jane Hawk series.
Jane’s husband inexplicably committed suicide. And the badass superwoman is determined to bring down the killers.
It’s an interesting plot.
Some terrific characters.
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Rocco recommended this non-fiction book. It’s hilarious.
And it is excellent.
Truth stranger than fiction.
… details the troubled development and production of the 2003 cult film The Room, his own struggles as a young actor, and his relationship with The Room director Tommy Wiseau.
A film adaptation of the same name was released in 2017, directed by and starring James Franco as Wiseau and his brother Dave Franco as Sestero.
I’d recommend the audio book:
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I happily joined in the Adlard family and friends vacation to Newport, Oregon following our climb of Mt Adams, Washington.
Newport only has a population of 11,000 yet is a big tourist destination. Great beaches.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Rick McCharles 